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Husband. Father of 5. Christian. SEO/Web Dev.

My son better grow up to be a famous ventriloquist because constantly suffering through the random noises and voices will only be worth it if he sets us up in the future.

I think knowing you have a high IQ caused you to believe you know more than you do rather than understanding that you simply have a larger capacity. Hard workers are infinitely more valuable than lazy high IQ individuals.

I love when politicians mention God so broadly that you can tell they are fishing for approval rather than standing on any actual conviction. It's the standing ovations that gets me though. All these independent Christian thinker homeschool parents thinking that he believes in the same god they do.

Oops, where did this pic come from..

GM

My beautiful wife wanted to go to this homeschool convention in Florida and we are listening to Ron Desantis on homeschooling. I don't want to be here y'all....

Spit bubble personified and became the protagonist in order to fight the final boss. I think he won.

My mom texted me today freaking out about the price of Bitcoin. I'm oddly unaffected and uninterested these days.

Well dang ๐Ÿคฃ

Men looked tougher in old photos because they weren't smiling. Turns out the secret to masculinity is just lifelong discomfort and unresolved emotions.

My vice here on #nostr is "liking" posts that complain about people liking rather than zapping. Sick, I know. I'm talking to Jesus about it.

Well...they tried

It's definitely a superpower to stay the nice guy

GM ๐ŸŒ„

Happy Lord's Day

I'm convinced that God gave us mother-in-law's to perfect us in patience and violent impulse control. All the masterfully crafted comebacks that never saw the light of day. My collection of silver stakes, garlic, and holy water left miserably unused...

It's a sermon clip series for the conference we did audio recording for.

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Just got into the whole podcasting world and good grief there is a lot of technical stuff that goes into it. I mean, making the content is simple enough, but it's a different beast when it comes to visibility and marketing..

I'd love some recommendations. I'm about 30 episodes in, with content coming out every Tuesday and Thursday at 1pm est for the next several months.

One of my teams asked me to do voiceover work for our upcoming EQ learning program we've been building. I recorded my voice in Elevenlabs so that we could generate voice content without the hassle of rerecording. Now these jokers are using all the tokens to literally put words in my mouth ๐Ÿคฃ

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In my wildest fantasies, Bitcoin doesn't exist, governments allow independent off-grid villages to flourish, and I'm just a simple farmer who never has to look at another computer screen again, simply providing food for the community.

#Gafternoonstr

A bit late today, but I've been busy with multiple fiat mining projects.

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From Seth for privacy

"of the OP_RETURN drama just reinforces for me how few people actually understand how Bitcoin works at a fundamental level.

Anyone telling you that you can filter out arbitrary data at the mempool policy level are either malicious or misinformed, it simply is not feasible.

Soooo many people have just blindly believed their favorite influencer or podcaster and haven't taken the time to understand that Bitcoin is a simple decentralized database literally designed for data storage.

Should we optimize for financial transactions however possible? Sure!

Can we prevent arbitrary data storage? Absolutely not!

Are there good reasons to use Bitcoin for arbitrary data storage? Absolutely!

Many new L2s and scaling solutions would require storing proofs on-chain, something that is simple data storage. They can do this no matter what you run on your node as the only entity who matters for block inclusion are miners, and miners have a clear incentive to make more money. That incentive is at the core of Bitcoin's game theory, and cannot change or everything falls apart.

If you go nuts with mempool filters and everyone runs sketchy software to white knight as "Defenders of BitcoinTM", guess what happens -- everyone just sends transactions straight to miners for an additional fee, small miners can no longer be competitive, and miner centralization gets drastically worse. Or they find unstoppable ways to simply make their transactions look standard using steganography (hiding data in tweaked pubkeys, unspendable outputs, etc.) so that they don't have to bother with direct miner submission.

Not only would that be literally impossible to filter, it would also be drastically worse for scaling than the current state of things.

Now the last major effect of this insanity is that it will absolutely lead to faster burnout of the few devs willing to work full time on Bitcoin, and disincentivize future devs from working on Bitcoin as they'll know they have to wade through the morass of public opinion just to get simple changes in a PR. Guess what happens when less devs want to work on Bitcoin? It stagnates, becomes more and more vulnerable to attacks at a software level, and becomes less useful as money because not enough people are maintaining or building the software.

So what can you do about "spam"?

Bitcoin has a novel spam prevention mechanism -- fees. Don't want people spamming the chain with "useless" jpegs and zk proofs? Simply spend more sats on using Bitcoin day-to-day, take self-custody, participate in the circular economy. The current state of almost no Bitcoiners using Bitcoin regularly is a core reason why on-chain "spam" is happening more than ever the past couple of years, as more and more usage of Bitcoin has shifted to custodians like Strike, Wallet of Satoshi, Liquid, etc.

The more of us that actually use Bitcoin the more we disincentivize using Bitcoin for data storage as the fees necessary will prevent it. Simple and effective."

It's a good point

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Happy Lord's Day

#biblestr #nostr

Someone gave us this yesterday, still not totally sure what to do with it. #plebchain

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Finished reading In Search of Holy Russia this morning and now working on "Guarding the Mind and the Heart" by St Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain, the recommended pre read before digging into the Philokalia.

GN ๐Ÿ’ค

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I'm always encouraged in the faith when listening to or reading Fr. Spyridons books and homilies. I'm reading "In Search of Holy Russia" today. They are both free on audible right now.

Read through Fr. Spyridon Bailey's book "Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan" today. He does a good job talking about the banking system and the history of how we got where we are today. It almost sounds like he spent time with us here in Nostr under an alias. ๐Ÿค”